MSF urges 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council to stop the massacres in Syria At least 70 people have been killed and 550 injured in an airstrike on a marketplace in the Douma neighbourhood near Damascus, Syria, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on 31 October. As...
In the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, more than 1,300 people living with HIV/AIDS are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, around half of them in the capital, Sana’a.
At least 35 Syrian patients and medical staff have been killed, and 72 wounded, in a significant increase of air strikes on hospitals in Northern Syria, according to health staff supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) inside Syria. The escalation of attacks, which began in late September, have...
Despite denials by the Saudi-led coalition, it is beyond doubt that it struck and destroyed a hospital supported by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Haydan, Yemen, on October 26, MSF said today, adding that the hospital...
An earthquake variously recorded at between 7.6 and 8.1 on the Richter scale rocked parts of northeastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan on the afternoon of 26 October. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical projects in north western Pakistan were faced with an initial influx of seriously...
Airstrikes carried out late last night by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen destroyed a hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), MSF announced today. The small hospital, in the Haydan district in Saada Province, was hit by several airstrikes beginning at 10:30 last night...
MSF is shocked and strongly refutes the false allegations made in the media by the Humanitarian Committee of DPR regarding its medical-humanitarian activities. This includes erroneous statements regarding mismanagement of pharmaceutical products such as psychotropic drugs, criticism of the...
Despite weeks of intense negotiations with Ansarallah (Houthi) officials, international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that stocks of essential medical supplies cannot be delivered to two hospitals in a besieged enclave of the city of Taiz, in...
On 19 October, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) received written notification from the Humanitarian Committee that its accreditation in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic had been withdrawn and to immediately stop activities. The organisation was not provided with a...
Nearly three weeks on from the US bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma centre in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on 3 October, MSF today announces with sadness that the death toll is still rising, with one more MSF staff member confirmed to have been killed. The total number of dead is known...
